However,the national social security law established a system that would grow and become a central part of American life.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Now, the concept of ritual impurity was a central and integral feature of most, if not all, ancient religions.

现在，仪式上的不洁已经是大部分宗教,主要的，整体而言的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So then what happens is, they work in a central office.

所以，事情就是，他们在中心办公区工作。

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Denis Hayes said lawmakers in Washington have repeatedly failed to make the environment a central issue.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Instead of having a central bank we decided that there would be a list of banks called the National Banks.

与拥有一个中央银行不同的是,我们决定将很多银行归到,国家银行的行列中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It had about four hundred small rooms built around a central open plaza.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

So in terms of the first step of skeletal structure, this is actually going to be easier because we don't have a central atom, we just have carbon and nitrogen here.

对于第一步画出骨架，其实比刚才更容易,因为我们没有一个中心原子，我们这里只有碳和氮两个原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Still,Mr.Obama is focused on creating jobs, a central message on his Tuesday visit to the economically-devastated state of Michigan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

In any case, Poulet was also a central figure on the scene of the sixties.

不管怎么说，波利特也算是六十年代舞台上的一个中心人物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And I have the utmost faith in his ability to achieve this goal as a central member of our economic team."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

If you had to pick a central focus of where the Greeks were, it would be in the Aegean Sea. So that's useful to remember.

如果你要在古希腊寻找一中心位置,那就是爱琴海,所以这很容易理解

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The protesters have occupied a central commercial district for more than two months, demanding the government step down and allow new elections.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Where Aristotle made the courage of men in combat a central virtue of his ethics, Hobbes pointedly omits courage from his list of the moral virtues.

亚里士多德把战争中,勇敢的人作为最高美德，而霍布斯恰恰是把勇敢,从美德的列表里删掉了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Together, they tell a kind of encapsulated history of this central, fascinating, problematic poet's career.

这些照片聚集在一起，告诉我们关于那个重要的，迷人的，满腹疑问的诗人的职业的简缩历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is a political culture, Smith argues, in which violence has always played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

I think you can see why Areopagitica has been memorialized for centuries now as one of the central precursors, well, to a number of things.

我认为你能看到《论出版自由》作为最主要的先驱,流传和纪念百年是有很多原因的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In a speech Tuesday at a central plaza, Mr.Rajoelina thanked the military for its support.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

A final model, then, is a model of gradual emergence, who had developed a separate identity and settled increasingly in the central highlands.

最后一个模型是逐渐起义的模型，他们逐渐建立了独立身份,逐渐在中央高地定居。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Nabhan was believed to be a central operative for the global terrorist group al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

This diagram at the top here is a very familiar one to most of you, it's sometimes called the central dogma of molecular biology.

顶部这个示意图,对大家来说都非常熟悉,这叫做分子生物学的中心法则

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"It is nothing else,it is murder." "Treachery and murder." Training Afghanistan's army and police force is a central tenet of Britain and NATO's mission in Afghanistan and considered crucial to any exit strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Morality is extremely central to our lives, and a deep question, which we will struggle with throughout most of the course, is the question of good and evil, evil and good.

道德在我们生活中是极为核心的,我们要在大部分课中探讨的,一个深入的问题,就是善与恶的问题,恶与善

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says finding that out will be crucial. "Whether this was an act of terrorism conducted by al-Qaida central or that of a lone wolf acting independently, we will have to wait and see for the investigation and what comes out of that, but we do know that al-Qaida and their affiliates have a crazed obsession in targeting the aviation industry,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

The English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, in which in parts of central Europe a quarter of the population disappeared, were killed, murdered in ways that I will unfortunately show you in a while.

欧洲近四分之一人口,死于三十年战争和英国内战,稍后我会展示给你们看,我对此也很难过

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Central Park was a huge success and helped create a movement across the United States for creating public gardens.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

but I like to, every now and then, I take a walk over there, just cut through Central Park

我喜欢时不时地穿过中央公园，到河滨公园散步，

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Somalia's weak central government must deal with a deadly rebellion inside the country and is unable to police its waters.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

It's not as popular as Central Park. But I feel like it's kind of a hidden gem.

它并没有中央公园有名。但我觉得它是一枚被隐藏的瑰宝。

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And I've seen Grand Central Stations on television shows, movies. I can't name a movie,

我在电视节目和电影里都看到过中央车站。虽然说不出具体是哪部电影，

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